Taitu Hotel Addis Ababa

... or brush our teeth, we dreamed of a better tomorrow. Start: Adenium Campsite, Awassa, ETH. 14:00 End: Ithegue Taitu Hotel, Addis Ababa. 20:00 Distance Traveled: a little over 150 km, can't remember exact distance Road Conditions: traffic jams ...

... for those who like seeing truly far flung places that challenge as well as entertain them). Took a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Addis Ababa. It stopped in Khartoum, Sudan which is in the middle of the brownest, driest looking place I have ever ...

Where I slept [again] in the Taitu Hotel. It was [according to Lonely Planet ed. 2000] built by Menelik's wife, Empress Taitu, in 1907, and was the country's first government hotel. It was such a novelty at the time that it had to be made ...

... up and drop off some passengers before arriving in Addis. Toby, Matt, Athene and myself shared a taxi and got a place at the Taitu Hotel, close to the Piazza. Had some very nice Shish Kebabs and a Middle Eastern place that evening. Next day and a ...

We left London on Monday night for Addis Ababa. Sunday and Monday I felt terrible with flu symptoms and a very sore throat. These symptoms continued to get worse, and by the time I arrived in Addis I was in a bad way. It was very difficult to sleep as if ...

... Lise and Salvador who were staying on in the Lalibela area to do some trekking.  I flew back to Addis and made my way back to the Queen Taitu Hotel with its legion of incompetent but amiable staff.  There was a message waiting for me from Lalo, ...

... zu Andrea's Hotel gehen, ihr das Geld geben (ihre Kreditkarte funktioniert irgendwie nicht) und dann weitersehen. Also auf zum Taitu Hotel. Das hat sich wesentlich schwerer gestaltet als angenommen. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer haben wir gedacht, das ...

... and family We had a nice flight, with a little sleeping. We arrived at 6:00, and after some arrangements took a taxi to the Taitu hotel, which looks depressing, also locate in a depressing area. The driver took us to a "city tour", looking for hotels. ...

... about it, not Lonely Planet nor my ex-pat NGO friends at least.  Dragging my tail back to Addis unannounced and ahead of schedule I decide to stay in a hotel rather than impose on my friends.  I need to see another side of Addis for one thing, ...

... was just over 14hours, and the Dad who set next to us could talk the leg off a chair. By the time we got in to Addis at around 7pm the journey and the Dad had sucked all energy from us and we were both completely shattered. The next afternoon ...

... teeth with AK-47s, just seemed to watch it with a detached bemusement. I checked out early and got a cab to the Taitu Hotel, a nice cheap backpacker option. The drive gave me my first opportunity to see sub-saharan africa close up. I was surprised ...

... snorkelling with the lonely Zanzibari boatman?) but as that now seems so long ago now we must move on swiftly to Ethiopia.  Addis Ababa has its charm.  At the airport I met a brother and sister called Sophie and James (from ...

... a post to the Ethiopian bus system after this one. Its just that unique!! So, to start at the beginning... We left Addis Ababa early on the morning of the 11th. In the Toyota Landcruiser was Alicia and Arnold, an American couple driving from ...

... and COMPLETE SATISFACTION. This is just a little note for beloved ones back home to know we are safe and healthy in rainy Addis Ababa. Intermittent internet connection (no way to upload photos yet i'm afraid, nobody allows me to use my own laptop), mud ...

I'm staying at the Taitu Hotel, supposedly first in Ethiopia, now falling apart spectacularly. Checked out the Wutma Hotel and during breakfast was approached about a possible 8-day of southern Ethiopia for $100/day for 4WD and driver to be shared 3 ...

We took a 5 hour flight from Doha to Nairobi, and after a short stop-over was in Addis Ababa 2 hours later. We weren’t expected to arrive in Ethiopia for another couple days, but we decided we had seen enough of Doha (there wasn’t really ...

... some more time to look around the area and prepare for yet another long bus journey south to Kenya.  I stayed in a place called the Taitu hotel which is the oldest hotel in the country which also offered a surprisingly good deal at $5.50 per ...

Ayer llegue a las cuatro de la manana al Taitu Hotel. Tipico hotel de la capital, colonial y muy bonito. Tengo una habitacion muy normal, con bano propio pero huele mucho a humedad. Parece que es la epoca de lluvias y no para. Aunque para mi han hecho una ...